The seedling stage is generally the most important bottleneck for the successful
regeneration of trees in forests. The traits of seedlings, particularly biomass allocation and …

The seedling stage is a key phase in the regeneration dynamics of forest communities. The
functional diversity of tree seedlings is closely related to the structuring and functioning of …

Seedlings play an important role in the processes of plant community succession. We
compared seedling (dbh< 1 cm) species composition and diversity over a chronosequence …

Most of the previous studies on functional traits focus exclusively on either seedlings or
trees. Little knowledge exists on the relationships between community level functional traits …

The interspecific relationship between functional traits and tree seedling performance can
be inconsistent, potentially due to site-to-site or microsite variation in environmental …

The productivity and biomass allocation strategies of two early successional (ES) and two
late successional (LS) tropical tree species were compared and related to their successional …

Plants growing in forests at different succession stages in diverse habitats may adopt
various life strategies from the perspective of plant functional traits. However, species …

Plant reproductive traits have often evolved to optimize plant fitness under different
environmental conditions, and their relationships with vegetative functional traits reflect more …

Plant biomass allocation may be optimized to acquire and conserve resources. How trade‐
offs in the allocation of tropical tree seedlings depend on different stressors remains poorly …

We explored how plant functional traits respond to environmental factors and examined the
underlying mechanism driving the ecological strategies of plant species in a community …